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[Fortex @Fortex72]

If Ramanujan were alive today, a certain gang would’ve branded him a Sanghi and dismissed his genius—simply because he was a devout Hindu who credited Goddess Namagiri for his formulas.

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There is a different kind of beauty in people who challenge themselves. Knowing quite well that they might fail, they do it anyway. Passion, like ideas, is contagious. Keep fighting. Keep pushing above your weight. Ftw!

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The boy became a man the moment he posted this video.

[Anushka✨ @anushka18001]

I got so emotional after watching this video 🥺

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This is so good.

[Anurag @anuragteewari]

Here is the first episode of my new IP series, PRAKASH BHARATI.

Our first bulletin crossed 300K views on Instagram in under 12 hours.

A fictional 80s-style Indian news network reporting on things that feel a little too familiar.

#PrakashBharati #Satire #aifilm #IndianTelevision #80sAesthetic #80sTrend

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Detailed, balanced and a well written piece that goes beyond the headlines of what happened at Eiffel Tower and the overall BAPS related controversy.

I am not, in any way, associated with BAPS but a humble suggestion, is that Hindus should specially read the piece because we are the first to throw our own under the bus at the slightest inconvenience.

[Gorakkh @gorakkh]

What really happened at the Eiffel Tower? A fact-based look at the BAPS visit, the monks’ celibacy discipline, SETE’s staffing decisions, French law on equality & religious freedom. Facts before outrage. #baps #bapsparis #eiffeltower #paris #Hindutemple https://t.co/wsBJXifmID

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

The SC/ST Atrocities Act, by its very design, encourages misuse rather than genuine grievance redressal.

1. In a country where people kill each other over few hundred rupees, offering 1,00,000 rupees simply for filing a case under this Act, for offenses as minor as verbal abuse, creates a obvious perverse incentive. Up to 50% of this amount is disbursed upon the filing of the FIR alone, requiring no prior investigation. Another 25% is paid when the chargesheet is filed. The best part is, if the case is later proven false, the compensation is not automatically recovered. How could this setup not encourage misuse?

2. There is no requirement for a preliminary inquiry. Someone makes a complaint, and you are arrested, that's it. With anticipatory bail explicitly barred, you are left entirely at the mercy of the legal system. Depending on your financial resources, getting bail can take anywhere from a few days to many years; a man in UP spent 20 years in jail before being acquitted of false charges. While defenders of the law argue that the innocent will eventually be freed, the process itself becomes the punishment. Why should innocent individuals endure humiliation and severe mental, physical, financial, and social hardship in the name of skewed social justice?

3. There are virtually no consequences for deliberate false accusations. A complainant can fabricate allegations, land an innocent person in prison, collect govt compensation, be exposed as a liar in court, and still face zero accountability. Instead, they can simply play the victim, claiming that the justice system fails the marginalized.

This framework has spawned a lucrative extortion ecosystem. Syndicates exploit the threat of non-bailable arrest to blackmail citizens, business owners, and public officials. When unverified cash payouts, absolute immunity, and guaranteed incarceration align, a law designed to shield the vulnerable inevitably becomes a tool for institutionalized extortion.

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Build baby, build!

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@join2manish That’s so good to hear Manish. Kudos to the entire team.

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Why is no one wearing a seat belt?

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WTAF!!!

[bri. @fireanddesiress]

um….???

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सिर्फ़ ज़रूरतों के लिए जियेंगे तो फिर जियेंगे कब?

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Not even hiding it anymore. The audacity.

[Birmingham City Council @BhamCityCouncil]

Tonight we will be lighting the Library of Birmingham green and white to mark the 79th anniversary of India's independence on 15 August.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Kate’s period blood is in my -80 °C freezer.

Around 10 mL.

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Designers need to understand that taking out the most iconic part of a logo just for the sake of simplicity, will make it worse. They killed Jaguar, even Pringles. Stop simplifying icons!

[Better Landing © @BetterLandingCo]

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[Anviksha @Anviksha_]

For performing puja (worship) in a temple, knowledge of Vedic scriptures and mantra recitation is required, not reservation.

- In the Ram Temple, there are a total of 24 priests, out of which 2 belong to Scheduled Castes (SC) and 1 belongs to Other Backward Classes (OBC).
- In the Jagannath Temple in Puri, alongside Brahmins, OBCs and Scheduled Tribes (the Sabar tribe) also perform worship.
- In Kerala's Sabarimala, only Scheduled Tribes perform worship.
- In several Shaktipeeths in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, non-Brahmins conduct the worship.

Knowledge comes through hard work, not through reservation.
That is why you know nothing.

[Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 @arunbothra]

I worked in Punjab as a journalist during the peak of militancy. Later in my career, I headed the Punjab Cell in the CBI, which had, in its past, investigated cases of fake encounters as well as the assassination of Sardar Beant Singh.

Those experiences gave me a rare opportunity to see both sides of that tragic period. They taught me that any honest account of those years must acknowledge both sides of the story.

And that is exactly my concern with Satluj: not what it shows, but what it leaves out. It tells only half the truth; the other half is left unsaid, deliberately, and with a purpose.

The film decontextualizes Jaswant Singh Khalra and the human rights debate from the Pakistan-backed, brutal Khalistani insurgency. This omission is neither an innocent creative choice nor an inadvertent one. And, in my view, the intent behind such a selective portrayal should matter to every Indian.

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Genius!

[CR1337 @CR1337]

In order to prevent stores from evading taxes, every receipt in Taiwan is automatically a lottery ticket, too, which can win up to $300k, turning customers into voluntary tax auditors:

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.

‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.

‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’

‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’

‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’

She stopped dead.

‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’

That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.

Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.

So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.

‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’

A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.

My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.

‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’

The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.

Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’

Case closed.

At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.

If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.

The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.

Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.

Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’

The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.

#SundayMusings

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

This tweet is both a white pill and black pill at the same time.

White pill because TN government under CM Vijay not only gave the necessary clearance, but has proactively done something unheard of politics - primordial prevention of corruption.

Black pill because even a well connected billionaire had to wait for the political winds to change to raise his voice, presumably for fear of consequences.

What hope does a common man have ? Hint: read the white pill.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Define Irony

The founder of an app, where the first question that is asked is "What is your salary" and where people below a salary level are not allowed, criticizing other Indians asking about salaries